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Those factors are consistent for everyone, though, and it seems that developers have more job induced unhappiness than many other careers. There's something fun
by Trasmatta 2y ago
Those factors are consistent for everyone, though, and it seems that developers have more job induced unhappiness than many other careers. There's something fundamentally wrong and broken with this discipline.
- croo 2y agoIt is almost as if humans are not made for sitting 8-10 hours learning abstract stuff and thinking really hard about imagined logic puzzles in constant stress.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoIt's as if we get some satisfaction from doing physical things with our hands and seeing progress for our labors at the end of each day.
- mekoka 2y agoThe fact that a programmer would quit their 50h/w job, which they hate, to then take on a personal 80h/w project (open source, saas, educational, etc), which they enjoy, suggests that the malaise has little to do with the craft.
- ricc 2y agoIs there something like the SO Developer Survey for other industries?
- JKCalhoun 2y agoA good point — and as even the article points out, plumbers and farmers live in the same world as engineers and aren't grousing about housing costs or wars potentially brewing. Why is that?
- bryanlarsen 2y agoPlumbers and farmers are deeply unsatisfied, just try talking to them. That's why a sizable majority of them plan on voting for Trump.